Suzanne Poynton

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

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Suzanne is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the UNSW Faculty of Law. Suzanne has extensive experience in criminology research. She has worked as a researcher and manager at the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (2000-2006) and was an Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL’s Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science (2007-2010).

She has completed research on a variety of topics including long-term trends in violent and property crime, enforcement of liquor licensing laws, economic costs of alcohol-related crime, employment and reoffending amongst parolees and displacement and diffusion effects of policing initiatives. Suzanne was awarded her PhD in 2006 for her thesis on the deterrent effect of penalties for drink-driving offences.